Also, the main page should say how many chapters there are in the story, and have a link to each individual chapter. It's annoying to be on chapter 8 and have no idea if it's 8 of 10, or 8 of 52.

At the very least, an indication that there are chapters is nice. I tend to save a lot of stuff for later reading, and it drives me nuts when I get to the end of the downloaded page and realize that all I've got is the first part, or even just an index page. But if your story is 27 parts, please, please give me an option to save it all at once, even in a text file.

Ideally, the info I'd like to see next to the link would include title, some indication of length or number of chapters, pairing, and some sort of description. Where warnings might be considered necessary, my preference is for those to be available by a separate link so that you can choose to read them or not. And yup, black or dark background with red text or some other color is probably going to make me say bye-bye without looking further.

I hate links that spawn a new window.

Now, see, I like when outside links open in a new window. Or, at least, until I realized how to make them do it myself. Because when something links away from a site, I used to get lost and not be able to find my way back to the original site.

As I said, though, now I know how to make links open in a new window.

I ain't smart, but I sure is pretty.

While we're on the subject and for comparision purposes, how readable to people find my site? (I've been considering re-doing some of it, and I'd like to know if there's anything that especially annoys.)

What things are especially common and especially annoying in terms of color, layout, etc.?

Tiny font. I grow weary of having to copy and paste a story into Word in order to read it.

Also, I understand that people want to protect their story or images but disabling the right click just irritates me. Plus it doesn't accomplish anything except that it makes me think you're silly.

Those animated thingies... really ornate fonts and typefaces that look beautiful to you, but really are more "olde-tyme" than legible.

Oh! Animated cursors!

I'm not a fan of trying to navigate with a shimmering mass of stars, thanks.

Actually, I hate frames, period.

As do I. I've been meaning to figure out a different way to code Polyamorous to get away from them.

Hmm. Hmm. Maybe with some SSI I can... t brain wanders off into the land of code

Oh! Animated cursors!

I'm so with Kristen on this. Animated cursors make the baby Jesus cry.

As do I. I've been meaning to figure out a different way to code Polyamorous to get away from them.

Off the top of my head, wouldn't be too hard.

Hmm.

Hmm. Many good ideas (and examples of spectacularly bad ones) here...

I agree that animated cursors are of the Devil.

Te's site is fabulous. I love the dandelion motif.